Have you checked in the connection settings? It might be a setting to turn of messages as part of the connection.

>Hi,
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>I'm using VFP 5.0a and when I execute a stored procedure in SQL Server 7.0, using SQL Passthrough, VFP displays a notification box "Executing Remote... Press ESC to Cancel". I have set notify and set talk off (see below code extract). Why am I receiving this message and how do I suppress the message?
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>Thanks
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>set notify off
>set talk off
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>m.sql = "execute inventoryholding '" + dtoc(oUser.currentholdingdate) + "'"
>sqlexec(oUser.connection,m.sql,'vholddate')